Sign Up for a gov Domain Information for Election Officials WELL-KNOWN Increasing trusted information State and local election offices are increasingly tasked with countering false or misleading information about an election on top of administering an election One concrete response election officials can take to address this problem is to make it easy to identify official election websites on the internet a task made simple by gov gov is a ‘top-level domain’ or TLD similar to com org or us Individuals and enterprises use a TLD to register a domain name often simply called a domain for use in their online services like a website or email The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA administers the gov TLD and makes it available solely to U S -based government organizations and publicly controlled entities For election offices and all qualifying entities it’s available at no cost TRUSTED Using a gov domain for your online services helps the public quickly identify your website as a trusted government source This is different from other wellknown TLDs where anyone in the world can register for a fee Malicious actors know this and have sought to impersonate election organizations using non gov domains Additionally using gov increases your security • • • Multi-factor authentication is enforced on all accounts in the gov registrar which may not be the case for other commercial registrars gov domains are ‘preloaded’ which requires browsers to use only a secure HTTPS connection with your website This helps protect your visitors’ privacy and helps ensure the content you publish is exactly what’s received You can add a security contact for your domain making it easier for the public to tell you about a potential security issue with your online services If you’re from the government we’re here to help Visit our registration page at https home dotgov gov registration to begin Interested in a gov domain Visit dotgov gov email registrar@dotgov gov or contact your regional CISA staff CISA DEFEND TODAY SECURE TOMORROW 1 cisa gov Central@cisa dhs gov Linkedin com company cisagov @CISAgov @cyber @uscert_gov Facebook com CISA @cisagov